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AFT SPEECH BY HON K C CHAI
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-
OBE, JP 2.12.1987
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Report of the
Vocational Training Council
Mr. CHAN Kam-chuan:
Sir,
Among the papers laid on the table of this Council today is the Report of the Vocational Training Council, VTC for short, for the year ended 31 March 1987.
I am pleased to report that the VTC continues to make good progress in fulfilling its functions of providing technical education and industrial training to meet the developing needs of Hong Kong's industry and commerce. I would like to highlight a few of VTC's achievements in the year of reporting and since.
On the technical education front, the first two
technical institutes planned and built by the VTC at Sha Tin and Tuen Mun opened for classes in September 1986. Since then, the latest institute at Chai Wan started to enrol students in
September this year, thus bringing the total number of institutes to eight. By September 1988, the total number of full-time and part-time places in technical institutes will be about 11,500 and 50,500 which will represent an increase of some 158 and 41% respectively since the VTC was established and took over the responsibility for establishing and operating technical institutes. Besides the increase in the number of places, the institutes are now able to offer courses in new areas of technology which are vital to Hong Kong's further development.
The VTC also hopes to begin construction work for the the annexes to Kwai Chung Technical Institute and the Kwun Tong Technical Institute and the reprovisioning of the Morrison Hill Technical Institute facilities. When these projects are completed in late 1988 or early 1989, both the teaching facilities and student amenities of all the older pre-VTC
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